Manuscript/Mixed Material NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General files; 1950, correspondence
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Image 1 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND SUBJECT FILE ARMED FORCES BOX FOLDER
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 2 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … December 26 1950 MEMORANDUM TO MR CARTER FROM MRS HURLEY Will you let me know what disposition has been made of the Robert T Coles communication which I brought to your attention…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 3 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS IN THE ARMED FORCES Until we abolish segregation in the armed forces Negro servicemen must be doubly aware of their rights for segregation causes all kinds of trouble…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 4 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Di Ls Your Right for a Brief on Appeal If you are convicted ask your lawyer to forward a brief alon with the record on appeal This is a right afforded by…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 5 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Jw a summary courtmartisl If you choose a summary court you may not then demand a special or general court Also the fact that you receive nonjudicial punishment does not mean that…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 6 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … lye 12 You Are Entitled to A Lawyer on Appeal In the office of the Judge Advocate General there are officers who must represent you during the review of your case if…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 7 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Coy df Maio THE INVALIDITY OF REGULATIONS REQUIRING THE SEGREGATION OF THE RACES IN THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People submits the following memorandum…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 8 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … the remaining vestiges of segregation of the races which obtain in any branch or unit of our Armed Forces and thal enlistees and draftees be classified assigned and allowed to serve without…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 9 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Street v United States 133 US 2993 33 LEd 631 and the regula tions established by Congress upon such subjects are contrelling authority Riellys case 2 Abb Pr N5 MY 33 1867…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 10 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … issue orders regulations and instructions with the approval of the President in reference to matters connected with the naval establishment is subject to the condition necessarily implied that they must be consistent…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 11 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … the utilization of Negro manpower is to be found in War Department Circular 12 April 27 1946 more commonly known as the Gillem Report This Army directive provides in part Tn order…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 12 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … of practically total separation of the races 2 In summary these facts show 1 That Congress has the exclusive power to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 13 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … i The present policy of the Department of the Army as reflected by War Department Circular 12 precludes Negroes from en listing in or being selected for service in all branches of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 14 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … United States Distriet Court On appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals the decision was affirmed the court holding that the auestion of classification of this type was one of high public…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 15 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … May 3 1948 Korematsu v U S 321 US 314 194k Ex Parte Endo 323 US 283 1933 See Tunstall v Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen 323 US 210 194k…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 16 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … respect to the armed services in Executive Order 9981 Paragraph 1 July 26 1948 It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 17 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … 1946 that the existence of discrimination against minority groups in this country has an adverse effect upon our relations with other countries We will have better international relations when these reasons for…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 18 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … At the InterAmerican Conference on Problems of War and Peace held at Mexico City in 1945 there was adopted a resolution No Ll recommending that the governments of the American republicsmake every…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 19 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … face of this tradition and such practices is a flagrant violation of the national policy In considering whether its recommendation should be that segregation be eliminated from our Armed Forces because opposed…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 20 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … On the following day President Truman again stated that by his Executive Order he expected all segregation of races to be abolished eventually from the Armed Services New York TIMES July 31…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 21 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Army regulations are made applicable to National Cpard units within the to fortyeight states as effectively as xk Regular Army units themselves Ofttimes service in such National Guard units provides immediate and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 22 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … discriminatory quota calls when national selective service is in effect As stated by Circuit Judge Swan in the case of U S ex rel Lyhn v Downer In the light of the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 23 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … the Army may decide its own needs Congress has stated that in taking its inductees it cannot take them as it needs them or as it is ready to use or accommodate…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 24 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Though segregation of men in the Armed Forces has obtained in varying degress in this nation since the Revolutionary War it is also true that until World War 1 integrated units were…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 25 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … CONGEISION Though segregated in World Wars I and II the Negro used his own judgment and fought because he believed that by fighting for America he would gain the respect of the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 26 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … ARMED SERVICES The problem in the armed forces is to successfully complete racial integration This is important for many reasons We know the feelings of injustice and the actual injustices which arise…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 27 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … November 29 1950 Thurgood Marshall Clarence Mitchell For your information
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 28 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … November 29 1950 MEMORANDUM To Walter White From Clarence Mitchell Subject Meeting with Assistant Secretary of the Army On Friday November 10 I met with Mr Earl D Johnson Assistan Secretary of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 29 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … November 10 1950 Honorable Earl D Johnson Assistant Secretary of the Army Department of the Army Washington D C My dear Mr Johnson Knowing that your time is limited I have listed…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 30 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … STATE OFFICERS President U S WIGGINS M D 1025 S 4th Street Camden N J VicePresident SAMUEL A WILLIAMS 295 Halsted Street East Orange N J Secretary MRS DELIA H MARTIN 118…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 31 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … 1etClg ay November 15 1950 Dear Tobe Enclosed is a copy of a letter 1 received from Franklin Williams our West Coast Regional Director concerning the racial policy of the Armed Forces…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 32 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … SOUNDED 1809 LONGACRE 326890 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 20 WEST 40TH STREET NEW YORK 18 N VY Please dsrecs reply to WEST COAST REGIONAL OFFICE NAACP Sentinel Building…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 33 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Oetober 181960 ire Je Hs Calhoun Secretary Atlanta Branch NAACP 204 Auburn Avenue WE Atlanta Georgia Dear Mr Calhouns I have been in touch with Mrs James C Evans Civilian Assigtant to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 34 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Octobor 181950 Mrs James C Evans Civilian Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense Washington 205 De Coe am Dear lr vanst Thank you very much for…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 35 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … April 25 1950 Mr Calvin C Campbell 6LLi1l Rhodes Avenue Chicage 37 Illinois Mr Alexander H Pope 1005 East 60th Street Chicago 37 Illinois Gentlemens Your communications directed to this office requesting…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 36 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … Messrs Campbell and Pope 2 April 25 1950 alleged the policy of the Selective Service System to fill its quotas wherever possible from volunteers regardless of their order numbers and the classification…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 37 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … CSJAGY 19502436 NAACP legal Defense and Educational Fund Ine 20 West 40th Street New York 18 New York ATIN Mr Jack Creenberg Dear Mr Greenberg Reference is made to your letter to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 38 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … RETURN TO MESSAGE CENTER for proper routing THIS COMMUNICATION WAS WRONGLY DELIVERED TO Division branch etc DATE SIGNATURE _ This communication will be given SPECIAL HANDLING to compensate for the delay 188…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 39 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … SECURITY CLASSIFICATION If any WAR DEPARTMENT SBSrty DISPOSITION FORM SUBJECT FILE No Request for New Trial Under Article of War 53 Pub TAG DATE 50 March 1950 COMMENT No1 S B SMITH6691…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Image 40 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General … RECEIVED Mig 22 8 21 AH50 MESSAGE CENTER BRANCH ID GSUSA
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1950
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Title
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Armed forces; General files; 1950, correspondence
Names
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Headings
- - Law--United States
- - Civil rights--United States
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Segregation
- - Segregation--United States
- - United States--Race relations
- - United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
- - African Americans--Education
- - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc
- - African Americans--Political activity
- - Criminal law--United States
- - Discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
- - Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
- - Discrimination in education--United States
- - Discrimination in employment--United States
- - Discrimination in housing--United States
- - Discrimination in public accommodations--United States
- - Discrimination in the military--United States
- - Educational law and legislation--United States
- - Election law--United States
- - Housing--Law and legislation--United States
- - Labor laws and legislation--United States
- - Recreation centers--Law and legislation--United States
- - Suffrage--United States
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Subject File, 1929-1968
- mss65570, box 41
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- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records
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- Manuscript Division
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- image
- online text
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Subject
- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Law
- Discrimination
- Discrimination in Criminal Justice Administration
- Discrimination in Education
- Discrimination in Employment
- Discrimination in Housing
- Discrimination in Public Accommodations
- Discrimination in the Military
- Education
- Educational Law and Legislation
- Election Law
- Housing
- Labor Laws and Legislation
- Law
- Law and Legislation
- Legal Status, Laws, Etc
- Manuscripts
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Political Activity
- Race Relations
- Recreation Centers
- Segregation
- Suffrage
- United States